The Yankees may have done even better in the latest MLB draft than it seemed.

Outfielder Blake Rutherford, who was selected by the Yankees with the 18th overall pick in June, had the talent to be taken with one of the first five picks, according to ESPN’s Keith Law, who recently listed Rutherford as the 22nd-best prospect in baseball.

In 33 games of minor league play last summer, the 19-year-old hit .351 with three home runs.

“Two guys I know who scouted the Appalachian League thought he was the best hitter there, just in terms of pure hitting prowess and projection,” Law said during a conference call Monday. “There was concern about that he’s a 19-year-old coming out of high school — the history of those guys is not great — [but] this guy’s a pretty exceptional hitter.

“He’s gonna hit for average and he’s gonna hit for power. He’s clearly a corner outfielder to me. I’d probably put him in right, it’s possible he ends up in left just because you might have someone with a little more range at some point. I think he’s gonna hit for very high averages. I was aggressive in the ranking. I thought he was a top-five player at the draft. He went to an advanced league for someone right out of high school, performed well and impressed the scouts that saw him.”

The Yankees’ farm system is unrecognizable from recent seasons, ranking second-best in the majors, according to Law, though he said they could just as easily make an argument of having a stronger system than Atlanta.

“I think they’ve done an excellent job,” Law said. “They’ve converted very well, major league assets into some pretty high-ceiling prospects. I think they’ve also drafted really well in the last couple of years. … Even a case like James Kaprielian, who wasn’t healthy, but didn’t actually blow out or require surgery, he came back in the Arizona Fall League and still looked like a potential No. 1 starter.”

The Yankees added Torres (Aroldis Chapman), Frazier and Sheffield (both Andrew Miller) in deadline deals last July. Few players in all of baseball have as much potential as Torres, who shares a certain trait with a Yankees legend.

“It’s funny he’s with the Yankees because when I saw him for the first time in 2015, I gave a little of a comparison to something Derek Jeter always did, which was [his] two-strike approach and just willingness to stay with the pitch and stay back a little bit and line something maybe to right field or right-center,” Law said. “Torres, who was 18 at that point, was already doing that. He’d have a bad at-bat, maybe the first one, second time through you’d see he made that adjustment, understand how the pitcher might be pitching him and stay back and go the other way.

“I think he’s a true shortstop, although he’s not much of a runner. I just think his hands are good, his instincts are really good, he’s got great arm and a quick release. He’ll probably spend a good chunk of this year at Double-A. I doubt they’ll try to rush him, but it certainly puts him on track for a promotion at some point in 2018, assuming there’s a need at shortstop.”